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If the Central Time Zone pushed around and roughed up the Kings over the weekend, well, then Monday night was far worse. To review: They lost to the Blackhawks, 4-1, at United Center. They lost ground in the Western Conference playoff race. And they lost one of their better puck-moving defensemen, Andrej Sekera, in the third period, and could only hope they don't lose him for a longer period than that. So just how did “Chelsea Dagger” sound? The Kings had to listen to the Blackhawks anthem — the Fratellis song played after every Chicago goal at United Center — four times, including twice in an error-riddled 64-second span in the second period when a power-play...

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If the Central Time Zone pushed around and roughed up the Kings over the weekend, well, then Monday night was far worse.To review: They lost to the Blackhawks, 4-1, at United Center. They lost ground in the Western Conference playoff race. And they lost...

Wild-card madness.
The Kings finally got the combination they've been looking for the last little while: help from the out-of-town scoreboard and then not squandering that assistance in a key division game.
Done and done.
It all came together in a...

At his core, Dean Lombardi is a development guy.
Lives it. Thrives on it.
The Kings' general manager spoke about the learning curve of some of his less-veteran players, the ones who don't get quite as much attention on a day-to-day basis, the likes of...

There was one King, combining on a nicely executed give-and-go with center Jeff Carter for their second goal.
Another one of the Kings managed to score in close with one hand on his stick and the other on the stick of Avalanche defenseman Brad Stuart,...

The shifting Western Conference race continues to be close and the Kings pulled within a point of the Winnipeg Jets for the final wild-card playoff spot and they are within one of Calgary for third place in the Pacific Division. A few takeaways from...

One of the primary ways to get the Kings annoyed is to suggest they are simply waiting to flip the switch for when it really counts.
They've heard it nearly everywhere. From Anaheim to El Segundo. From Winnipeg and now in Edmonton.
On Tuesday night, the...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Long after the good (rocker John Fogerty), the bad (the Kings' white hockey pants) and the perplexing (Melissa Etheridge's cover of Janis Joplin's “Piece of My Heart”) fade away, the latest offering of outdoor hockey will be...

Coach Darryl Sutter was feisty while leading the Kings through their morning skate Tuesday at Washington's Verizon Center, and he maintained his edge afterward, deriding a question about the team’s desperation level and saying reporters were baiting him...

High-powered meetings take place in the White House every day. Kings General Manager Dean Lombardi added to the unofficial total Monday, while his team was at the White House to be honored for its 2014 Stanley Cup championship, when he sought out NHL...

If there is a price to be paid for playing 11 playoff series and 64 playoff games in the past three years, one can argue that the Kings are making that payment right now.
As of Tuesday, the reigning Stanley Cup champion Kings are on the outside looking...

There were so many side plots, curious twists and just flat-out weirdness during the Kings' latest road loss.
Yes, the last two words happened to be the first takeaway after all that buildup.
The Kings lost to the woeful Edmonton Oilers, 3-2, in a...

Kings center Anze Kopitar, mired in one of the longer slumps of his career, recognizes the correlation between his personal scoring woes and the state of the team.
“I’ve been through this in the past,” he said Tuesday after the morning skate here....

There was a slightly scary moment in the waning moments of Kings' practice Sunday morning.
Kings forward Tyler Toffoli had a close call with the skate blade of a teammate, defenseman Jake Muzzin. It happened near the corner, just to the left to the...

They've had the necessary experience, going through the long and winding journey as reigning Stanley Cup champions.
But when the Kings first won the Cup in 2012, they didn't start their defense until 2013, opening the shortened season on Jan. 19...

Road Lessons 101.
It’s unclear how long “That '70s Line” of Tanner Pearson-Jeff Carter-Tyler Toffoli will be reunited on this trip. But with Marian Gaborik expected to return to the lineup against the Buffalo Sabres, the kids and Carter will be grouped...

Tanner Pearson's season has been a wild adventure.
He went from winning the NHL's rookie of the month honor in October to being stapled to the Kings' bench by Coach Darryl Sutter in November when his scoring touch vanished. Sutter could have scratched...

The Sutters are used to this sort of thing.
The Nolans? Not quite.
Kings forward Jordan Nolan was all smiles and full of anticipation when he spoke about playing the Buffalo Sabres, a team coached by his father, Ted Nolan. It will be an NHL first for...

The Kings were on a giddy high a week ago, coming off a franchise first, a 6-0 homestand. And now? They are still searching for their first road win of the season, exploring the low end of the emotional spectrum, losing to unheralded Carolina.
A few...

Escape night.
The Kings avoided the dubious distinction of not having won on the road this season and also shed the issue of their lingering first-period woes.
Emphatically, three players broke out of goal-scoring slumps: Trevor Lewis, Dustin Brown...

The Kings ended their five-game trip on a handful of positive notes Tuesday night in Dallas. They recorded their first road win of the season, Trevor Lewis and Kyle Clifford scored their first goals of the season and, well, the captain, Dustin Brown,...